KARACHI, Oct 23: The Pakistan Bar Council will resist the move to extend the retirement age of superior court judges, Rashid A. Razvi, a PBC member from Sindh, said here on Wednesday.

“Consultations are due to be held in Lahore on Friday on the eve of the Supreme Court Bar Association general body meeting there”, he told Dawn. Mr Razvi, who is the chairman of the PBC human rights committee, did not say anything about the nature and shape of resistance.

“It depends on the view taken by the PBC at its formal meeting”, he said. The lawyer, however, ruled out recourse to legal proceedings as they would come up before ‘the beneficiaries’.

The extension, particularly its timing and the circumstances surrounding it, he said, was the worst of all attempts made by the government to undermine the independence of the judiciary.